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Published 2013.
This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words, based on data obtained from over 1,000 texts.
Part 3 (the core of the work) traces linguistic developments in ...
Published 2013.
This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words, based on data obtained from over 1,000 texts.
Part 3 (the core of the work) traces linguistic developments in systematic detail across more than twelve centuries. Special attention is given to the evolving meanings of colour terms, their connotative values, figurative extensions, morphological productivity, and lexicographical registration. New light is shed on a range of scholarly issues and controversies, in ways relevant to German lexicologists and to linguists further afield, notably in French and English.
Preceding this, Part 1 reviews previous work in colour linguistics. Part 2 describes and documents the formation of popular colour taxonomies and specialised nomenclatures in German across many periods and fields. The textual data examined will be of relevance to cultural historians in fields as far apart as philosophy, religious symbolism, medicine, mineralogy, optics, fine art, fashion, and dyeing technology.
